Note: At the 2009 IABPA meeting in Portland, OR, USA, the IABPA membership voted to adopt the SWGSTAIN recommended terminology.
Definition
- Saturation
- [A bloodstain pattern created when a volume of blood has been absorbed by an object.]*
Bloodstain Example - Saturation
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Description
This pattern was generated by holding a blood source above the clothing long enough that the blood was absorbed by the material and created bleed though.
Alternate Terminology
| Bevel & Gardner | Non-spatter Family - Regular Margin - Saturation |
| James, Kish & Sutton | Passive - Contact/Transfer - Large Volume - Saturation |
| Wonder | Spatters Not a Criteria - Volume |
| SWGSTAIN | Saturation Stain - A bloodstain resulting from the accumulation of liquid blood in an absorbent material. |
* This definition is not from the IABPA terminology list. IABPA does not currently provide an official definition.